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Announcing the 2018 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes Finalists

AAAS and Subaru are proud to announce the finalists for the 2018 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books. The Prizes celebrate outstanding science writing and illustration for children and young adults and are meant to encourage the writing and publishing of high-quality science books for all ages. The 2018 winners will be selected from among the following finalists in four categories. Winners will be announced in January and awarded at the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin.

To read more about the Prize and this year's finalists download the full article from SB&F. For information about purchasing the books, click on the book titles, which will take you to the SB&F Amazon Online Store.

The prizes began in 2005 by looking back on decades of outstanding science books and honoring five authors and one illustrator for their significant and lasting contribution to children's and young adult science literature and illustration. Educators can see a list of past winners and find resources for helping you to use them in your classroom at the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books collection page on Science NetLinks.

Science NetLinks will also create lesson plans and other resources around the 2018 Finalists, and once again the books will be offered to schools across the country as part of the Subaru Loves Learning initiative. Through this partnership between AAAS and Subaru, over 76,000 books were donated in 2017.

If You Were the Moon, by Laura Purdie Salas (Author), Jamie Kim (Illustrator.) Millbrook Press. 2017. 9781467780094
This book conveys information while awakening a sense of wonder in the nighttime sky.

My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis, by Paul Meisel, (Author & Illustrator.) Holiday House. 2017. 9780823436712
This book is an entertaining, first-person narrative of the five-month life cycle of praying mantises.

Robins! How They Grow Up, by Eileen Christelow, (Author & Illustrator) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2017. 9780544442894.
Two young robins narrate this fascinating story of their first year.